Victoria Ilina

{{Short description|Russian rhythmic gymnast (born 1999)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1999|03|28}}

| birth_place = Saransk, Mordovia, Russia

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| club = Gazprom

| gym = Novogorsk

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| headcoach = Irina Viner

| assistcoach = Natalia Kukushkina

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| choreographer = Mikhail Pervykh

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{{MedalCompetition | Junior European Championships}}

{{MedalGold | 2013 Vienna | Group All-around}}

{{MedalGold | 2013 Vienna | 5 Hoops}}

{{MedalCompetition | Youth Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold | 2014 Nanjing | Group All-around}}

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Victoria Valeryevna Ilina ({{langx|ru|Виктория Валерьевна Ильина}}; born March 28, 1999, in Saransk, Russia) is a Russian Group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic Group all-around champion and the 2013 European Junior Group all-around champion.

Junior

Ilina started out competing as an individual gymnast. Her first major international tournament was competing in the junior division at the 2012 Moscow Grand Prix. In 2013, Ilina began competing as a Group gymnast, she was member of the Russian Group at the 2013 European Junior Championships with Russia taking the gold medal scoring a total of (33.916) ahead of Belarus (32.700) and Bulgaria (32.532) in the all-around competition. They won another gold medal in 5 hoops final.{{cite web |title=Russia won all Juniors Titles with its Group |url=http://www.gymmedia.com/rhythmic-gymnastics/Russia-won-all-Juniors-Titles-its-Group |publisher=gymmedia |date=2 June 2013 |access-date=28 August 2014 |archive-date=3 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903064542/http://www.gymmedia.com/rhythmic-gymnastics/Russia-won-all-Juniors-Titles-its-Group |url-status=live}}

In 2014, Ilina competed with the Russian Group at the 2014 Moscow Grand Prix taking gold in Group all-around, following their placement, the Russian Group earned a qualification to compete for the Youth Olympic Games. On August 26–27, Ilina was member of the Russian Group (with Daria Anenkova, Daria Dubova, Sofya Skomorokh, Natalia Safonova) that competed at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China where they won gold in Group All-around finals.{{cite web |title=Russian Rhythmic gymnasts repeat golden sweep at Youth Olympic Games |url=https://www.fig-gymnastics.com/site/figNews/view?id=764 |publisher=International Federation of Gymnastics |date=27 August 2014 |access-date=28 August 2014 |archive-date=3 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903053750/https://www.fig-gymnastics.com/site/figNews/view?id=764 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Russians take more gold in rhythmic gymnastics |url=http://english.jschina.com.cn/special/25420/25426/25724/25731/201408/t1551773.shtml |publisher=JSChina |date=28 August 2014 |access-date=5 September 2014 |archive-date=5 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905102414/http://english.jschina.com.cn/special/25420/25426/25724/25731/201408/t1551773.shtml |url-status=dead}}

In 2015, she suffered from injury and underwent a surgery. Therefore, she finished her career.

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